11^th April 2018, 4-5.30pm, The Martin Hall, New College

Professor Natalie Gummer (Beloit College, Wisconsin)

‘Reading Rituals: Sacrificial Hermeneutics and the Study of Mahayana Buddhist Sutras’

Khyentse Buddhist Studies Lecture, generously supported by the Khyentse Foundation                 

4^th April 2018, 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College

Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster University)

‘The phenomenology of dispassion across Hindu and Buddhist traditions’

Asian Religions: Boundaries, Connections, Identities annual lecture

28^th March 2018, 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College

Dr John Zavos (Manchester University)

‘The aura of chips: religious difference and the dance of animacy in British Asian street kitchens'

Religious Studies research seminar

14^th March 2018, , 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College

Dr Carol Richardson (Edinburgh College of Art)

‘Catholic History and the Tudor Martyrs’

Religious Studies research seminar

7^th March 2018, 4.00-5.30pm, the Martin Hall  

Women and religion balloon debate, in celebration of International Women’s Day, featuring staff and postgraduates from across the School of Divinity. Who is the most important woman associated with religion? Come and hear the arguments then vote for your favourite!

2 May 2018 (rescheduled from 28^th February 2018)
 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College               

Sammy Bishop (Edinburgh University)

'Bodies and Boundaries: The Role of the Researcher in Contemporary Tantra'

Religious Studies research seminar

14^th February 2018, 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College

Dr Mia Spiro (Glasgow University)

‘”Do I look Jewish?” Artificial Anthropoids and the Enigma of Interwar Jewish Art’

Religious Studies research seminar

31^st January 2018, 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College  

Seán Martin (Edinburgh Napier University)

‘A Shadow on the Face of Muspel: Gnostic Traces in the Fiction of David Lindsay (1978-1945)’

Religious Studies research seminar

17th January 2018, 4.00-5.30pm, Elizabeth Templeton Lecture Theatre, New College

'Engaging the Public: The Impact of Religious Studies’

A panel on the public impact of Religious Studies/Study of Religions led by committee members of the British Association for the Study of Religions, including Dr Stephen Gregg (Wolverhampton), Dr Christopher Cotter (Edinburgh), Dr Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity), Dr David Robertson (The Open University) and Dr Steven Sutcliffe (Edinburgh)

Bárbara Fernández Melleda: "© Copyright (2003) by Nadia Prado: Denouncing the Neo-Colonial and Challenging the Neoliberal"

© Copyright (2003) by Nadia Prado: Denouncing the Neo-Colonial and Challenging the Neoliberal

29 November, 5.30pm: 50 George Square; G.05